Private label and co-manufacturing dairy processor Ninth Avenue Foods will invest more than $200 million to build a new dairy processing plant in Longview, Texas, according to several local news outlets. The facility will be the company’s third in the country (joining City of Industry, Calif., and Columbus, Ind.), and it is expected to bring 150 new jobs to the region.
The facility will be an extended shelf-life (ESL) facility, which appears similar to the company’s current facility in California. Ninth Avenue Foods, a fourth-generation, family-owned and -operated dairy company, says on its web site that it can process numerous types of milks, creamers and half & half, both dairy and non-dairy varieties.
Steve Goldenstein, vice president of Ninth Avenue Foods, said in a statement quoted by the local news outlets that the new Longview facility will be “strategically located to serve our existing customers while supporting our continued growth and expansion into new product capabilities.”
Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for nearly 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In 2018, he won a Folio:Eddie Award for his unique "From the Editor's Desk" video blogs, and he has brought home additional awards from Folio and ASBPE over the years. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.
